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What Functions Explain

What Functions Explain

What Functions Explain
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What Functions Explain Hardback - 2000

by Peter McLaughlin

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  • Title What Functions Explain
  • Author Peter McLaughlin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2000-12-18
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BIBNNA-144218
  • ISBN 9780521782333 / 0521782333
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.03 cm)
  • Reading level 1480
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Social sciences - Philosophy, Biology - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00031179
  • Dewey Decimal Code 570.1
  • Quantity available 1

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This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy of science that has occurred over the past fifty years. He discusses the history of the philosophical question of teleology, and provides a comprehensive review of the postwar literature on functional explanation. The book provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions, and offers a positive contribution to the ongoing debate on the topic.

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We give and take functional explanations-not any old functional explanation and not of anything and everything.

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